Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — Victor Wembanyama and France are playing in Paris for the first time since the start of the Olympics . That’s brought out some of the most celebrated players in international basketball history. Carmelo Anthony, who became the first player from
ASUNCIÓN, Paraguay (AP) — The Biden administration on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a Paraguayan tobacco company for allegedly enriching the country’s controversial former president, a cigarette tycoon sanctioned last year by the White House for corruption. The U.S. Treasury Department said it was targeting cigarette producer Tabacalera del Este over its links to Horacio Cartes
LONDON (AP) — The British government has called on Elon Musk to act responsibly after the tech billionaire used his social media platform X to unleash a barrage of posts that officials say risk inflaming the violent unrest gripping the country. Justice Minister Heidi Alexander made the comments Tuesday morning after Musk posted a comment
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian piano player has died in jail while awaiting trial on charges linked to his criticism of Moscow’s military action in Ukraine, news reports said Tuesday. Mediazona, an independent Russian news outlet, reported that pianist Pavel Kushnir died on July 28 in a jail in Birobidzhan, a city in fareastern Russia
Klimatske promene | Izvor: Beta | 06.08.2024 | access_time 12:50 Jul ove godine je bio najtopliji u Srbiji od kada postoje merenja, odnosno od 1951. godine, sa srednjom mesečnom temperaturom vazduha 24,9 stepeni, saopštio je Republički hidrometeorološki zavod (RHMZ) u novom mesečnom biltenu. To je za gotovo šest stepeni više od proseka pre nekoliko decenija
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — The last time he went to the Olympics, Luis Grijalva had to divide his time between training and doing paperwork for the complicated procedure for leaving and re-entering the United States. This time, the Guatemalan long-distance runner can focus solely
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. PARIS (AP) — Like most self-respecting Parisians, Mathilde Joannard and Franck Tallieu had been training for the Olympic sport of Olympics-bashing. Of course the Olympics were going to be a mess, the couple had reasoned when they learned the Games were coming to
Want more Olympics? Sign up for our daily Postcards from Paris newsletter. SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — Charley Hull of Britain might not be going viral at the Olympics. There’s no smoking inside the ropes at Le Golf National. Hull made quite the sensation this year at the U.S. Women’s Open with a social media post
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Following Venezuela’s disputed presidential election nine days ago, officials from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico have been in constant contact with representatives of both President Nicolás Maduro and opposition candidate Edmundo González to seek a solution to the country’s political crisis. A senior Mexican official who has been part of the discussions
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The woman who owns the suburban New York property independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims as a residence said in court Tuesday that he pays $500 a month for a room. The testimony comes as Kennedy fights a lawsuit claiming his New York nominating petition listed a residence in
